Tenellia pustulata
| Tenellia pustulata | |
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| The nudibranch Tenellia pustulata, Strangford Lough, Co Down, Northern Ireland. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Fionoidea |
| Family: | Fionidae |
| Genus: | Tenellia |
| Species: | T. pustulata |
| Binomial name | |
| Tenellia pustulata (Alder & Hancock, 1854)[1] | |
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Tenellia pustulata is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.[2]
Distribution
This species was described from Cullercoats, North Sea, England. It has been reported from the NE Atlantic from Orkney south to Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel.[3] Also reported from the Atlantic coast of North America.[4] This species has been reported from Maine, the Barents Sea and the White Sea but DNA sequencing suggests that this is a species complex.[5]
Ecology
Tenellia pustulata feeds on the hydroid Halecium muricatum, family Haleciidae.[3]
References
- ↑ Alder, J., & A. Hancock. 1854. Notice of some new species of British Nudibranchiata. Annals & Magazine of Natural History, series 2, 14(80):102-105.
- ↑ Gofas, S. (2014). Cuthona pustulata (Alder & Hancock, 1854). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-01-26
- 1 2 Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). Cuthona pustulata (Alder & Hancock, 1854). [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
- ↑ Rudman, W.B., 2005 (May 23) Cuthona pustulata (Alder & Hancock, 1854). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ↑ Cella, K; Carmona Barnosi, L.; Ekimova, I; Chichvarkhin, A; Schepetov, D; Gosliner, T. M. (2016). A radical solution: The phylogeny of the nudibranch family Fionidae. PLoS ONE. 11(12): e0167800.
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